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...ethic of greed” that pervades Wall Street. His view finds much sympathy on “Main Street.” After all, a quick survey of just a few of the financial industry’s titans yields nothing but front-page scandals??from Bernard Madoff, the mysterious asset manager “extraordinaire” who was revealed to be the mastermind behind a wealth-draining Ponzi scheme, to John Thain, the former Merrill Lynch CEO who spent a reported $1.2 million redecorating his office suite (complete with a $35,000 commode...
...Reeves has been in financial hot water before, when the FBI investigated allegations of financial wrongdoing during his previous mayoral term. But given the political theater of this year’s scandals??farcical enough to earn the title “Ken’s crazy Chronicle kerfuffle” from The Boston Globe—Reeves could find himself in an unusually tenuous position entering this November’s council election...
...judicial appointment on the nation’s highest court demands that we further scrutinize his record, both in college and on the bench, far more strictly than a Senator who stands for election every six years. The collegiate histories of politicians—while certainly fodder for media scandals??find relevance only insofar as they affect political careers. Kennedy’s legislative commitment to equality certainly outweighs an adolescent indiscretion; Alito’s support of CAP well into his thirties simply cannot be excused, especially for a man who stands on the brink...
...journalists can’t keep their sources’ names confidential, then informants won’t talk. Reporting on governmental and corporate scandals??in which sources are likely to be fired if their names are revealed—will become well nigh impossible. Newspapers will be relegated to reeling off human interest stories and boilerplate press releases. It will be like turning the New York Times into the Harvard Gazette...
...applicants caught an early glimpse of their admissions decisions and have been damned to rejection for it. Duly frustrated, the sacrificial lambs of a business establishment’s desire to clean up its image—torn and tattered after being embroiled in years of corporate scandals??are being told to suck it up and repent...
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